Northern Sun Battalion

The Northern Sun Battalion is an armed rebel group consisting of YPG fighters and Turkmen Free Syrian Army troops, founded in April 2014 during the Syrian Civil War. The battalion, Jabhat al-Akrad, Syria Revolutionaries Front, Hazzm Movement, and other Syrian Opposition groups formed the Army of Revolutionaries, and in October 2015 the group joined the Syrian Democratic Forces. With a strength of over 100 fighters, the group helped in the offensives against the Islamic State in Raqqa Governorate and Aleppo Governorate, with its leader Abu Layla being severely wounded in the Manbij offensive of 2016.